Jean “full of” Schmidt is creating a legal trust fund:

Rep. Jean Schmidt said Wednesday she plans to create a trust to cover legal expenses associated with a defamation lawsuit filed on her behalf in Clermont County Common Pleas Court against a former political opponent, David Krikorian.

The trust would be able to accept up to $5,000 annually from any U.S. resident or organization to pay lawyer bills, spokesman Bruce Pfaff said.

The effort to create a trust was prompted by speculation that the Turkish government is funding the defamation suit filed June 8 by the 2nd District congresswoman, Pfaff said.

The suit claims that Krikorian, an Armenian-American, has falsely accused Schmidt of taking money from Turkish government-sponsored political action committees to deny the genocide of 1.5 million Christian Armenians by Muslim Turks during World War I.

You might remember David Krikorian from previous blog posts and a really interesting concession speech when he lost the Democratic Primary. Krikorian was a self-described “Reagan Republican” until he lost his bid in Republican primaries. After that he did the jump to the other side of the ticket.

But something else interesting strikes me in this article. Schmidt is supposed to be one of those “anti-lawsuit” Republicans. I guess that has changed now?